his sleep at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he had lived for 51 years. He had completed that morning an arrangement for wind quintet of some music from Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens (titled "Dolce assai" after Berlioz's expressive marking), which was performed at his memorial service the following week at Lexington's First Parish Church (Unitarian), where he had served as organist and choirmaster from 1955 to 1981. Cooke, who greatly enjoyed poetry, used to sum up his own life with a favorite couplet from the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali: "It was my part at the feast to play upon my instrument And I have done all I could Rice-Cooke family tree Works Review of Modal Counterpoint in the Style of the Sixteenth Century by Ernst Krenek. Journal of Music Theory, vol. 4, no. 1 (April 1960), pp. 112–116. References External links The Warsaw Recordings CD Descendants of Thomas Hastings website Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook American male classical composers American classical composers 20th-century classical composers 1910 births 1995 deaths Yale University alumni New England Conservatory faculty Wellesley College faculty Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Yale University faculty People from Honolulu People from Lexington, Massachusetts American textbook writers 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians Judd family